Quotes About Mind

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.

Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Our mind must be free in order to express our qualities.

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.

If life is going well, I watch quality things like period dramas and 'The Blue Planet.' But other times, I'll trawl through anything Freeview has to offer. I do believe TV can ruin your mind, but it can also be a really good friend.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and immediately imagine a whole universe around them. A relationship, a future, and all based on just a second which might not even have been in their company. It's amazing how quickly the human mind can come up with this stuff.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.